Ended the week with a 1st author paper submitted. Really keen to see what the reviewers make of this one; it's a bit different. Watch this space!

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨 Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

A damp (and mostly misty) day for a 10 mile stomp across Kinder Scout and Mount Famine in the Peak District.

Up to the Lake District today to recce some field sites for our first year undergrad field class.

IPS is great but this is such a flawed criteria. It toally excludes any PhD students over 30 (they exist!).

A cold day on a rewetted Welsh blanket bog with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social, but great to get our GHG sampling underway for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social project ECO-WADE.

Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...

Prepping for peaty fieldwork. I MacGyvered a dipmeter with a cane, tape, and a £15 liquid level indicator for visually impaired people. Result!

A neat new pond/lake mapping paper from Germany essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

I turned 40 this week. Today, as a birthday present to myself, I finally dug my own pond. Looking forward to getting some plants in next.

Do you work on peatland carbon, hydrology, biodiversity, or restoration? We’d love to see your research in our Special collection for Sustainable Environment! 💧🌿🧪📈

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Our new ditch GHG paper now online in final view. A great team effort led by @tksilver.bsky.social with contributions from an all-star cast of supporting authors. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Great to see this rebuttal of Peter Pollard's freshwater CO2 nonsense published. ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/...

I've been seeing a lot of reviews and syntheses doing this lately: just ignoring "old" work without any justification. Editors and reviewers need to object. It's just bad science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 2026 Allan Robertson Grants are now open for applications! Are you under 30 and working in peatland conservation, responsible management, or innovative peat research? 👉 Apply here: peatlands.org/about-us/hon... 📅 Deadline 31 January #peatlands #peat #management #research #grants #earlycareer

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

Christmas is over. Time to panic submit your EGU abstract! Why not send it to our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases?

And now online in early view: "Towards improved accounting and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Pleased to say this paper has been accepted and coming soon to @iopp-environment.bsky.social. Led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star cast of supporting authors. A lovely way to end the year. Merry Ditchmas all!

A good day stomping across the valleys and moors of the Western Pennines today, especially for fans of Molinia. Ended the day with some ancient stone bothering at the Neolithic Pikestones burial cairn.

Happy Solstice all. I enjoyed a bleak walk along the Sefton Coast. My favourite time to be here, when the landcape feels huge and elemental and empty.

Out of office reply: activated. Happy to have reached the end of a very busy semester 🥳🎄

Took the afternoon off for a wetlands fix at @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere. No sun, no cold weather; it's hard to find joy in the landscape under such endless drear. A couple of marsh harriers and a flock of egrets were welcome sights that helped to lift my spirits though.

A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology. Today the sequel just dropped! "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3

….and my poster is up! Although you won’t get the pleasure of talking to me about it until 5pm tomorrow 🌱 #BES2025 #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #SwampScience #Peatlands

I'm presenting my results so far at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting this week. If you're there, come and find me on 17th December in Cromdale Hall, 17:00 - 18:30 🌳🍃 @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @li-corenv.bsky.social #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #Peatlands #SwampScience

First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.

A Friday afternoon grant rejection; a great way to end the week 🥳

A reminder for our #EGU2026 aquatic GHG session in Vienna next May. A few abstracts trickling in already, and looking forward to seeing more as they arrive.

#peatlands interesting piece from @renewableuk.bsky.social here www.renewableuk.com/media/wrdgro... I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!

I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th! Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!

Lovely Friday news; our EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account proposal has been successfully funded. Titled "Ditching Methane to Engineer Net Zero" (yes, it's about ditches), and with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social also on board. Looking forward to more ditch GHG work in 2026.

Last 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social labs of the semester. Our students are out valiantly measuring ecosystem CO2 fluxes in the torrential rain. @livunisoes.bsky.social

Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps! We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes. doi.org/10.19189/001...

Home lab set up for the day - time to get on with analysing a load of swamp CH4 samples.

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read. The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper

An enjoyable few hours touring some Scottish beaver wetlands with @dralanlaw.bsky.social

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

In the lab today - three boxes of water samples (two from UK lowland peat ditches, one from South African lakes) to run for UV-vis today, to give data on dissolved organic matter.

New ditch methane paper out, via my ongoing collaboration with Zhifeng Yan's group at Tianjin University. We show agricultural ditches can affect regional CH4 budgets. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

And today our MSc students took their bog samples into the lab - measuring N, P and DOM composition in water, and pH and EC in soil extracts.

Peatland and wetland folk - what loggers are you all using for water table these days? In the past I've used TruTracks (cheap but frequently break) and Troll 500s (great, but pricey). Any suggestions?

A really fun day at Risley Moss with our @livunigeog.bsky.social MSc students. Peat coring, pool biogeochemistry, and vegetation ID. Loads of enthusiasm from the students.

🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social **The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**

🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social to answer this question! Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline: 7th January 🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️

Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Really cool audio story on our recent ditch paper by @emfurd.bsky.social. Let's all pay more attention to our ditches...